Well Daz i got the feeling that before we all go electric why not.
Its a bit of a long story but read it or not..... In October we got a recall notice on Donna's car (yes the 435D Msport convertable XDrive i bought for me and she stole off me) for an EGR cooler check.
I took it in saying i was going to pick it up later that day.
I received a call from Haliwell Jones main agent BMW saying the tool used to test the EGR cooler was broken and could i do without a car until next day when the replacement arrives from Germany.
My answer was jokingly if the car you are lending me is an M2 then no i can't manage but otherwise i guess i can.
Tuesday arrives and still no machine to check the EGR, now i need a car because i have a hospital appointment next morning and Donna is working 2 schemes so i can't lift share.
They reply that they don't have a car and i can't have mine back as it's a safety recall and off the road but they will get Enterprise to pick me up at my house next morning to take me to their depot to get a car.
Wednesday arrives and the Enterprise man knocks the door, takes me to the depot and goes all around the car with his damage identifing tool and informs me any extra damage on it when i bring it back is £250 a pop.
Donna is lucky enough to be using my car and what do you ask is my ride? going from a remapped 535d Msport and a 435D msport i am now in a Vaxhaull Corsa!!
0 to 60 is a calander to measure, not a stopwatch but i think hey, i get mine back tomorrow.
Get to work and recieve a call from Gareth the workshop manager that the tool has finally arrived....... with the wrong camera attached so is no use but not to worry, another is on the way from Germany.
Next day i get another call from Gareth, the tool has arrived and we checked your EGR and unfortunately it is one of the faulty ones.No worries says i, it's only 10.30am, you will have that swapped for 4.30pm won't you?
Unfortunately not, we don't have any in stock.
Really???? a recall from October and not one on the shelf?????
We can only order one in when we find a faulty one, from Germany....... how long i ask....... 3 weeks he says...... three weeks!!!!!!! i ask........ well i want another car because that Corsa is the biggest pile of uncomfortable crap i have ever driven!!!
Sorry we don't have any cars and neither do Enterprise..... WHAT!!!!....i say, that's like me phoning McDonalds and them telling me they haven't got any burgers!!!!
So i am now driving a Corsa for 3 weeks until we get Donna's back and she has mine because she couldn't possibly drive it as it uses a stick think to change the gears things!
So i started looking, test drove one at Evans Halshaw fords, fell in love, had to have the LCI version, found one and put the deposit down.
So basically it's all Gareth's fault!!